This is a very exciting moment in Denver Broncos history as John Fox takes the reins as head coach of the iconic Rocky Mountain sports franchise.
There is no team comparable to the Broncos in our time zone, and as one draws closer to Denver it is like heading into the epicenter of an emotional tsunami, with the Broncos figuratively representing the state religion for legions of Broncos Country residents.
The Broncos have achieved legendary status over the past 51 years, albeit in a legendary low ebb at this very time.
But with every negative comes a positive, and in this case it just happened that John Fox was available to bring his experience, energy and focus to the Mile High City.
He is the right man at the right time.
Much has been accurately written about the emphasis on defense, a strong running game, passionate play and sound coaching which John Fox’s teams historically have shown.
Those elements reminded me of when Red Miller came to Denver at the Broncos’ head coach back in 1977, for an era that soon would have its own name — the Orange Crush, a moniker founded on defense.
The Broncos at that time parlayed defensive play with a sound offense that ran the ball and did not make mistakes, adding in exceptional performance on special teams.
History was made in 1977, as every Broncos fan knows.
I am absolutely not suggesting that history will repeat itself in exactly that manner; not exactly, but Red Miller was the right man at the right time in 1977, and he was a veteran coach who emphasized strong defense and a sound offense that liked to run the ball. There are parallels, and another one will be the zest and energy level that fans will soon see from John Fox.
The words of Heraclitus always ring true. Heraclitus was an ancient philosopher who said, “No man can step in the same river twice, because the second time, the river is not the same and neither is the man.”
Those words apply just as aptly to a city and to a football team and to the fans who follow and love that team.
It is not the same time, the same thing all over again, but it might be closer than people think.
History has so many instances in which the past presages the future, and the opportunity for another one may be upon us as the Denver Broncos enter the John Fox era.
Tags: 2011, Head Coach John Fox, Jim Saccomano, Red Miller
Who is next in our list ??? not that they will be willing to come here… sigh
Mr T, that’s who, Mr T, come on down…
Hahahaaha, yeahhhhhhhh Bay!
dend we will get our man and be fine, trust me. It’s better to get someone who wants to be here, and not feel like they need to be here to boost themselves to another HC job.
I totally agree with you Caramelloo…but sometimes can’t help but feel the pinch.
Looking forward to the draft and a much improved next season
That right there made my day, and I was having a good one!
Thanks bay, I was a little lost. I didn’t really want a DC with a mohawk, LOL.
I was just reading that little tidbit on Mr. T. The panthers finished in the top 10 in D three times with him as DC. I’ll take that over Mora any day. As a coordinator Mora’s units never even finished higher than 13th. I actually thought Mora was a better DC than that, but when I saw the statistics I kind of changed my mind on him anyway. The fact that he withdrew his name is probably a good thing in retrospect.
I PITTY THE FOOL THAT DON’T TAKE THE BRONCOS DC JOB!!!!!!
MR.T THE JOB IS YOURS,IF YOU WILL HAVE IT!!!
I like how we keep getting snubbed for HC and DC … funny part is we get snubbed by a lot of guysmost of the fans dont want anyway. Mr T on the other hand has had success as a DC and success with Fox. Packers D is doing great as well with him as a Dline coach. Im all for him if he wants to come aboard…dunno if he would want to leave GB after that team wins the superbowl which i am sure will happen lol
That’s true TRB. But it’s hard for anyone to turn down a promotion in any line of work. Hopefully that alone will convince Mr. T to make the move.
Haha BFE. That would be awesome if he became our DC and wore a giant medallion on game days. LOL.
DC title and pay with Fox in Denver beats D line pay in Green Bay even with a Championship title any day.
Wow over 1,400 comments in 5 days. I think it’s about time for a new blog.
Hopefully,since Mr.T has worked with Fox as DC before,and been successful,he will want the job.
88,I heard that,hopefully the new blog will read:
Elway finds his man,Mr.T is the Broncos new DC.
God I hope it don’t take that long to get a new blog,we’d have to wait till next week!
Yeah guys know they are in demand following Conference Championship and Super Bowl appearances.
A blog is a blog, if you follow it it doesn’t matter that it’s a new one with three posts on it or 1400, at least not to me.
Defensive coordinator Mike Trgovac joined the mass exodus of assistant coaches leaving Carolina on Thursday, turning down a contract offer to remain on coach John Fox’s dwindling staff.
“We had offered Trgo a contract and he informed us [Wednesday] night that he was going to pursue other options,” Hurney said.
doesnt sound too promising but hopefully it was carolina he was tired off, not Fox.
So bay DC pay may be more alluring than DLine pay, but he wasnt fired, he turned down the contract….
I mean even with a bunch of new blogs we would be hopping from blog to blog with exactly the same dscussions we are having on this one, just saying, LOL.
Put some dates on that, it will be easier to make sense of it.
Yeah I’m just not sure I’ve ever seen a blog with this many comments on here before. I got on to see what I missed since yesterday morning and realized I was about 350 posts behind. It was just a little intimidating, haha. So needless to say I decided to just not catch up and jump into the current conversation.
Because the dates will probably show us that it’s about when everybody in Carolina started becoming unhappy with their GM I bet.
Yeah, if you miss a whole day you are out of the loop and might as well start fresh, usually not an issue with me though.
I’ve heard their GM is hard to deal with. After hearing Fox talk a few times since being hired, I can’t imagine any assistant coaches not liking to work with him.
the date was: January 22, 2009, 4:12 PM ET
you said:
“DC title and pay with Fox in Denver beats D line pay in Green Bay even with a Championship title any day.”
The point was to convey that while a DC title and Pay with fox may be more aluring than that of a DL pay with GB, he has clearly turned down a DC title and pay before for the DL title and pay in question. Now whether that was because he was tired of carolina or as u say, the gm, i dunno…just saying, that its happened once it can happen again…hope it doesnt, just a little research…
I hear you TRB. Hopefully it was just the GM’s hard head that ran him off.
What about Ron Meeks, Carolina’s latest DC? They were still pretty solid on D last year despite their horrible record. With some stability at QB they would have been a pretty decent team. I’d be fine with Meeks, he seems to know how Fox wants his defense to play.
Well actually Carolina was 18th in total D last year. Not exactly good, but not that bad either considering their youth, and a lot better than our D. So even he would be an upgrade I think.
Yeah, it was the time everybody was getting fed up with the GM’s way of handling the team, thanks for the date.
Just saw NFL.coms mock draft…patrick peterson again i see..I think that migh thave been already mentioned on the blogs…i think i read it a page back or so but still, wow…
Yeah because some mock draft guys are now saying we are going to lose, brace yourself, Bailey, Cox and Goodman!!!
I saw that mock draft too. I think it would be a big mistake to take a CB that high. I know Peterson is a great player, but we need to come out of the draft with an elite talent D lineman in the first round if you ask me.
No Mora = No Problem!
wow we were 25 against the pass and 31 against the run?!?!?! Holy smokes thats horrible lol. I knew we were pretty much last against the Run but i was hoping we were at least in the teens against the pass…Man we really stunk it up on defense…maybe this is why Bay wants a full overhaul lmao cuz i sure didnt know our numbers were this bad or i might have agreed with him….probably not tho
lol
See, even if we lose all 3 of those guys, I still think it would be a mistake. We can get one starter at CB in free agency and draft another serviceable one in round 3 or so. If we still can’t get pressure on the QB it won’t matter who is playing in the secondary, we’ll lose a lot of games we shouldn’t lose.
If we don’t get that elite D-lineman we might as well have Daisy Duke and Betty Boop play CB because whoever is back there will look foolish.
I dont think we lose all 3, i am actually hoping we keep ALL 3. But hopefully we keep at least one, goodman comes back, cox found innocent and Bailey comes back as well. Altho some might not want Cox back after this, the same way with DJs DUI last year. Altho no ones talking about Dooms assualt case that he is going to court for. double standards? maybe. People also want Fairley the SEC Hooligan lol. (I think its SEC, im not good with college football lol)
For me personally DJ’s DUI has nothing to do with my disappointment. My problem is he’s been on the cusp of becoming an elite player his whole career but still manages to disappear 4 or 5 games a year. I’ve always liked him, but I think he needs to step his game up still.
88, no one here right now will disagree with you, I’m just not entering the conversation since I have been saying we need to build up the trenches before we can even think about the secondary, but here I go again for the zillionth time, a front 7 man is an absolute must with the first pick and preferrably Fairley, if taken then Bowers.
Doom’s assault case!!! you must be kidding, that’s a total joke of a case with a security guard who wouldn’t let him in the stadium, that thing will be thrown out of court first time on the docket.
I know you’ve been saying that for a while Bay. And I’m right next to you on that bandwagon at the moment. I just think it would be a huge mistake to get an elite CB and still have average front 7 players. Hasn’t that been our setup for a long time? We’ve had Champ for 7 seasons but no one other than Doom to help him out up front. Drafting Peterson would just be repeating our horrible history on D. Just my feelings on it though…
Yeah, Fairley is SEC, Auburn.
Lol it is, probably, im just saying lol its still a court case lol
Your feelings are accurate 88. You will find many on this blog are in line with those feelings…its funny, it seems to only be fans of this team that understand that concept…more accurately fans in this blog.(most of them). The so called analyst cant even figure that much out, no one knows what our team has been through better than us. Without a legitimate pass rush from the front 7, CBs are screwed. Only way I would entertain the Idea of Peterson is if we get the DE AND the OLB from Panthers that I want. Good young guys with tackles that get after the QB. It will enable us to acquire more picks by trading down and getting peterson and another second round pick
Oh well, we won’t know anything about the draft until April so I’ll save my breath for now.
good idea 88, good idea. Im glad Draft talks have slowed down on the blogs to talk about coaching stuff…seeing as how the draft is so far away, we would burn ourselves out…altho im sure after the senior bowl, it will pick back up again lol. TRB out…
And ya, TRB, that would be another option. If we got those FAs I might change my tune. Either way the front 7 needs to be addressed, and not with close-to-retirement declining players (no offense to Jamal Williams).
1400 + posts! Lol. That’s why I love my iPod! No previous page/next page nonsense to deal with. Just one long scroll. Though it does get annoying having to refresh and scroll back down. Lmao.
Hey while were at this trading game, why don’t we just trade Tebow for a 2, 3 & 4? That would definitely help our rebuild. I assume there is at least 1 person out there willing to make that trade? Maybe!
It’s dangerous proposing something like that on here sndvl, lol.
So I read a couple of you want to trade Royal and Lloyd or some combination of recievers like that. I for one am not into that idea at all. I think weakening one phase of our game to strengthen another is not a winning plan. You guys are literally talking about taking the ONE area of our team that shouldn’t be a major rebuilding project and stripping it of it’s best players. I understand we want to be run heavy. Being a threat to stretch the field is one important element to accomplish just that. Lloyd is the last person on our squad that I’d want to trade behind Champ. Say what you want about how Lloyd was able to get so many receptions, all I need is the old eye test. I’ve been watching Lloyd all year and let me tell you, he passed mine with flying colors. He may not get many yards after that catch but he’ll find a way to get that ball. And Royal is a playmaker who hasn’t been given enough opportunites in my opinion. I could understandletting him go a little bit more because we have been underutilizing him but I’d rather see what Fox can do with him before getting rid of one our maybe 3 or 4 playmakers on the team. All of our needs aren’t going to be addressed in one year but we can go a long way by trading Orton and DJ and grabbing a couple FAs.